It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPhone for May 2011. Asian countries become increasingly important in terms of number of downloads (see world map). Therefore, this month we focus on insights in market trends that are relevant for developers who want to grow their [...]
We just gave a presentation at Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona, titled “Market Shifts In Content Distribution”. This goes into four major shifts we identify in the current mobile content distribution landscape: Traditional business models are no longer in the lead App store content leaders of today are not those of tomorrow Impact of Asian countries on the [...]
We are at Mobile 2.0 Europe, where the AppCircus app contest is just being held. AppCircus is an app contest and showcase that travels around the world promoting the most innovative apps, and today 10 newly launched apps have pitched in front of a jury consisting of member from Telefonica, RIM, Intel and Nokia. Each of the [...]
Apple announced that in the newest release of OSX, the Mac App Store will be built in. That means every new or updated Mac will have the Mac App Store, just as every iPhone and iPad has access to the Apple App Store. This will increase the reach of the Mac App Store and is likely to [...]
Distimo Monitor, our app store analytics tool for app developers, is now improved with a new user interface, a daily dashboard and Windows Phone 7 reviews. A Dashboard That Gives You Your Daily Dose The previous (and still available) dashboard was way too static as the data did not change much over time. The new dashboard is [...]
While analyzing last month’s results we noticed superior growth in the number of available applications in Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (US) again. In April’s Month Report we concluded that if Windows Phone 7 Marketplace could maintain the growth pace showed in the first quarter, the store would be larger than Nokia Ovi Store and BlackBerry [...]
This June, we are happy to head back to Barcelona to attend Mobile 2.0 Europe. For us this is a very special conference, it is the place where we launched Distimo on stage in 2009. This year’s edition of the event is themed “openIDEAS – imagine & build the future of mobile”. The program will be [...]